Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Build broken (Re: [Pyobjc-checkins] CVS: pyobjc setup.py,1.19,1.20)

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Sunday, Dec 22, 2002, at 21:05 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>> I got mine by doing a CVS checkout of the GCC trunk. Just downloading
>> a recent copy of GCC will probably work just as well. If you go the
>> CVS route, checking out 'gcc/libffi' instead of the entire gcc module
>> saves a lot of time.
>
> Ok, got it through CVS as gcc/libffi.
>
>> The configure in libffi will give a fatal error near the end of
>> configureing, just ignore the error. Libffi itself is already
>> configured by the time you encounter the error; it tries to patch a
>> file one level up in the directory tree.
>
> [python:~/code/gcc/libffi] just% ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for Cygwin environment... no
> checking for mingw32 environment... no
> configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in ./../..
> ././../..
> [python:~/code/gcc/libffi] just%
>
> This doesn't create a Makefile. Any more things I need to do?

So much for untested advice... Appearently libffi depends more on files 
in the rest of GCC than I thought. I'll try to build a small archive 
containing everything that is needed to experiment with a 
libffi-enabled version of PyObjC.

Ronald